{"id":26529,"date":"2023-03-17T06:14:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T11:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26529"},"modified":"2023-03-17T06:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T11:14:58","slug":"st-patricks-day-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/17\/st-patricks-day-update\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick&#8217;s Day update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Goooooooo Tigers! 9 Florida Atlantic vs. 8 Memphis, NCAA tournament first round, 8:20 PM, TNT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over in NBA-land, the Grizzlies make a stop in San Antonio to play the Spurs tonight at 7. TV: Bally Sports South. This is the first leg of a back-to-back; the Grizz return home Saturday to host Golden State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone explain this to me: The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/grizzlies\/news\/memphis-grizzlies-announce-2022-23-promotional-schedule\" target=\"_blank\">2022-23 Grizzlies promotional schedule<\/a> lists Saturday as &#8220;Game Day presented by Pinnacle Financial Partners.&#8221; What does that mean? Do fans get anything? Or does it simply mean a sponsor spent a bit extra to get pimped out on the schedule? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/patti-labelle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Patti LaBelle<\/a> plays the Orpheum Saturday night. Tickets are $54.50-$147.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/michael-grandinetti\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Grandinetti<\/a> will bring magic to the Halloran Centre Thursday night. Tickets are $37.50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And over at the Cannon Center, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffreyosborne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jeffrey Osborne<\/a> brings his Can You Woo Woo Woo Tour Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Memphis LGBTQ+ organizations <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2023\/03\/17\/lgbtq-organizations-hold-rally-downtown-amid-recent-anti-trans-legislature\/\" target=\"_blank\">held a rally<\/a> Downtown Thursday to protest incredibly stupid and homophobic legislation recently passed in Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2023\/03\/16\/bridge-inspection-close-lanes-i-40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lanes of I-40 will be closed at I-240 Midtown Sunday<\/a> for a bridge inspection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday SEEMED like a horrible day for my NCAA bracket. I got Virginia, Arizona, Utah State, Iowa, and Texas A&amp;M wrong. But the damage is not that bad because<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t have any of those teams going beyond the Sweet Sixteen, and I only had Virginia and Arizona making it that far<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Everyone else in my bracket league had similar problems, so despite being in a multi-way tie for 14th place, I&#8217;m only 2 points out of first<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Butt Slut #2 is in a three-way tie for first. I guess I should be happy for her, but she&#8217;s kinda on my shit list right now. When I sat at her bar Sunday, she practically printed me a handbook of rules and regulations I&#8217;m expected to follow, including<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>No burping<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No coughing (despite being a nonsmoker in a bar that allows smoking)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No yawning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No burying my head in my phone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If she doesn&#8217;t cool it, I may have to add another rule to my handbook: No tipping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upsets I picked for today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>East: 11 Providence over 6 Kentucky<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Midwest: 12 Drake over 5 Miami<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Midwest: 13 Kent State over 4 Indiana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Time to get out there and watch some basketball. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goooooooo Tigers! 9 Florida Atlantic vs. 8 Memphis, NCAA tournament first round, 8:20 PM, TNT. Over in NBA-land, the Grizzlies make a stop in San Antonio to play the Spurs tonight at 7. TV: Bally Sports South. This is the first leg of a back-to-back; the Grizz return home Saturday to host Golden State. Someone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/17\/st-patricks-day-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St. Patrick&#8217;s Day update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26531,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions\/26531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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